New internship, worth mentioning? (ED)

<p>Hi everyone,
I've submitted my Duke ED application. Now, I've just received a (paid) internship placement for 5 months next year. It's related to the field of study that I'm interested in. Should I email admissions to add this bit of information? Since I've not actually done the internship, I'm not sure if will be considered by admissions. Also, I'm scared of annoying them with additional information.
Thanks!</p>

<p>I would not do so, because:

  1. You’ve yet to accomplish anything in this internship;
  2. Considering the extensive array of your application’s information, which Duke Undergraduate Admissions will assess during the next few weeks, it’s doubtful this would have any significance, however slight;
  3. Admissions Officers and Readers – at all ED and EA universities – are EXTREMELY busy and therefore could politely receive this update, but question your judgment in providing it (see #1 and #2, above).</p>

<p>I disagree. There is nothing wrong with sending an email to admissions with the info (with enough information to easily match it to you application) and ask them to please consider this information as an addition to your application. This happens all the time, they easily handle it and aren’t going to “question your judgement”. They want the best application you can put forward. Just be sure you include your full name, any identifying number they may have assigned your application when they received it (you would know if there is something when you log into the portal or if they emailed you, don’t sweat it if Duke doesn’t use one), and your SSN. The only way it would be annoying is if they couldn’t easily match it to your application.</p>

<p>Hi - I tend to agree with @toptier. Emailing admissions officers are a good idea when there is something substantial to add to your application file. However a new internship probably doesn’t cut it.</p>

<p>Might consider saving this tidbit in case you are deferred or waitlisted. Good luck</p>

<p>@TopTier‌ @sgopal2‌ some additional details: would it seem significant enough if the organisation I’m joining is quite recognised, and I have a good idea of what I’m doing there? It’s also a 9-5 internship program, Mon-Fri. </p>

<p>@econsftw‌: Yes, those additional details (recognition and full-time) are important, possibly enough that I would advise Duke Undergraduate Admissions. However, here’s a potential idea that will add this key information to your file, but without your direct involvement: Would your GC be willing to submit an addendum to his recommendation (VERY soon), delineating the facts and the competitiveness of this internship? If so, Duke would have the germane data and you would not have “troubled” Undergraduate Admissions. </p>

<p>@TopTier‌ thank you! That’s a great suggestion! </p>

<p>@sgopal2‌ @intparent‌ thank you for your inputs! </p>

<p>Oh, come on. Don’t play games. This is their job. They just want the best application you can put forward. And it becomes a game of “telephone” if you tell your GC and hope they pass the info along. This is not what GCs are for. If you have something sensitive to tell the college and you don’t want to sound like you are making excuses, go through the GC. But this doesn’t meet that standard. Just email them.</p>

<p>It’s “not what GCs are for?” I thought their overriding functions were to provide guidance and to enable student success! And, incidentally, @intparent‌, do you have any specific experience, familiarity, and/or expertise with Duke Undergraduate Admissions?</p>

<p>Nope, but you continually assure us of your expertise. The thing is, they aren’t really different from any other college in the top 20 or so, or the top 20 or so LACs. So what you “think” you know often doesn’t make sense in the context of how admissions offices actually work.</p>

<p>Oh, and GCs are for filling out school report, sending transcripts, making sure recommendation letters get submitted, and passing on sensitive info (eg, family issues, etc.) that you don’t want to talk about yourself because it sounds like you are making excuses. Other than that, put your own self forward with info for the admissions office. Don’t hide behind the GC for something like this. And… the volumes of apps they get is HUGE. This is such a nit, it isn’t going to hurt anything to just send it along. They get many emails like this every day, and just put the info into the app file. Don’t make any typos, and don’t send a lot of updates. Other than that, you all are overthinking how this could somehow be interpreted as a bad thing. It isn’t. </p>

<p>@intparent: I agree it’s a “nit.” You have an opinion and I have one that differs (plus a potential method tactfully to accomplish @econsftw‌ 's desired objective). Having read both our suggestions and rationales, I’ll wager he can make this decision.</p>

<p>I don’t mean the internship is a nit. I mean that communicating about it via email to admissions and asking them to consider it with the application is a nit in terms of “bugging” them. Many emails over time like this would be noticed, but one is irrelevant to how the application is considered (meaning sending the email isn’t considered bugging them). Just send it already.</p>

<p>@intparent‌ @TopTier‌ wow ok, there is so much debate going on here. I’ve asked my GC, he won’t send a letter for me, even after I offered to write it. He feels the same way as @intpar‌ent So I’ll just send it myself. No big deal. :slight_smile: thanks for helping me, both of you!</p>